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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:35:04
From: Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen-AT-mindspring.com>
Subject: US Admits it INTENTIONALLY bombed Red Cross


Please note the very last sentence here. This reflects a complete change of
tune for the US rationalization, which had previously claimed it had
"accidentally" bombed the Red Cross in Afghanistan.

- Mitchel Cohen

>From an interview on MSNBC, October 31, 2001
www.msnbc.com/news/627086.asp?cp1=1

In a suburb of Kandahar, a doctor who said he was injured in the 
bombing attack that struck the Red Crescent dispensary said the 11 
people killed and six injured included patients and staff at the 
facility. 
       ^ÓThe bombs fell at 4:30 this morning,^Ô Dr. Obaidullah told 
reporters escorted by the Taliban to the dispensary, his head, right 
hand and left leg in bandages from wounds he said he had sustained in 
the raid.
       Reporters heard U.S. planes dropping bombs on the city in two 
predawn raids, one of which took place at about 4:30 a.m. The reports of 
casualties could not be independently verified.
       U.S. forces had drawn criticism earlier for twice bombing Red 
Cross warehouses in Kabul. On Tuesday, a senior U.S. military official 
told NBC News that the Red Cross warehouses were not hit by accident, 
saying they were bombed because Taliban troops had commandeered the food 
stored there. 

   

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